John 11
11Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.G1161G5100G2258G770G2976G575G963G1537G2968G3137G2532G846G79G31362This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.G1161G2258G3137G3588G218G2962G3464G2532G1591G846G4228G846G2359G3739G80G2976G7703So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the one you love is sick."G3767G79G649G4314G846G3004G2962G2396G3739G5368G7704When he heard this, Jesus said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."G1161G2424G191G2036G3778G769G2076G3756G4314G2288G235G5228G1391G2316G2443G5207G2316G1392G1223G8465Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.G1161G2424G25G3136G2532G846G79G2532G29766Yet when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days.G5613G191G3767G3754G770G3306G1417G2250G5119G3303G1722G5117G3739G22587Then he said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."G1899G3326G5124G3004G3101G71G1519G2449G38258"But Rabbi," they said, "a short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back there?"G3101G3004G846G4461G2453G3568G2212G3034G4571G2532G5217G1563G38259Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day will not stumble, for he sees by this world's light.G2424G611G1526G3780G1427G5610G2250G1437G5100G4043G1722G2250G4350G3756G3754G991G5457G5127G288910It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light."G1161G1437G5100G4043G1722G3571G4350G3754G2076G3756G5457G1722G84611After he had said this, he went on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up."G5023G2036G846G2532G3326G5124G3004G846G2257G5384G2976G2837G235G4198G2443G1852G846G185212His disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better."G3767G2036G846G3101G2962G1487G2837G498213Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.G1161G2424G2046G4012G846G2288G1161G1565G1380G3754G3004G4012G2838G525814So then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead,G5119G3767G2036G2424G846G3954G2976G59915and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."G2532G5463G1223G5209G3754G2252G2258G3756G1563G2443G4100G235G71G4314G84616Then Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."G3767G2036G2381G3588G3004G1324G4827G71G2532G71G2443G2249G599G3326G84617On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.G3767G2424G2064G2147G846G2192G1722G3419G5064G2250G223518Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,G1161G963G2258G1451G2414G5613G1178G4712G57519and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.G2532G4183G1537G2453G2064G4314G3136G2532G3137G4012G2443G3888G846G4012G846G8020When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.G3767G3136G5613G191G3754G2424G2064G5221G846G1161G3137G2516G1722G362421"Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.G3767G2036G3136G4314G2424G2962G1487G2258G5602G3450G80G302G2348G3756G234822But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask."G235G1492G2532G3568G3754G3745G302G154G2316G2316G1325G467123Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."G2424G3004G846G4675G80G45024Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."G3136G3004G846G1492G3754G450G1722G386G1722G2078G225025Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;G2424G2036G846G1473G1510G386G2532G2222G4100G1519G1691G2579G599G219826and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"G2532G3956G2198G2532G4100G1519G1691G599G3364G1519G165G599G4100G512427"Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."G3004G846G3483G2962G1473G4100G3754G4771G1488G5547G5207G2316G3588G2064G1519G288928And after she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is asking for you."G2532G2036G5023G2036G565G2532G5455G3137G846G79G2977G2036G1320G3918G2532G5455G457129When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.G5613G1565G191G1453G5035G2532G2064G4314G84630Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.G1161G2424G2064G3768G2064G1519G2968G235G2258G1722G5117G3699G3136G5221G84631When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.G2453G3767G3588G5607G3326G846G1722G3614G2532G3888G846G1492G3137G3754G450G5030G2532G1831G190G846G3004G3754G5217G1519G3419G2443G2799G156332When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."G3767G5613G3137G2064G3699G2424G2258G1492G846G4098G1519G846G4228G3004G846G2962G1487G2258G5602G3450G80G302G3756G59933When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.G5613G2424G3767G1492G846G2799G2532G2453G2799G4905G846G1690G4151G2532G5015G143834"Where have you laid him?" he asked. "Come and see, Lord," they replied.G2532G2036G4226G5087G846G3004G846G2962G2064G2532G149235Jesus wept.G2424G114536Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"G3767G3004G2453G2396G4459G5368G84637But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"G1161G5100G1537G846G2036G1410G3756G3778G3588G455G3788G5185G4160G2443G2532G3778G599G3361G59938Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.G2424G3767G3825G1690G1722G1438G2064G1519G3419G1161G2258G4693G2532G3037G1945G1909G84639"Take away the stone," he said. "But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days."G2424G3004G142G3037G3136G79G2348G3004G846G2962G2235G3605G1063G2076G506640Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"G2424G3004G846G2036G3756G4671G3754G1437G4100G3700G1391G231641So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.G3767G142G3037G3757G2348G2258G2749G1161G2424G142G507G3788G2532G2036G3962G2168G4671G3754G191G345042I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."G1161G1473G1492G3754G191G3450G3842G235G1223G3793G3588G4026G2036G2443G4100G3754G4771G649G316543When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"G2532G5023G2036G2905G3173G5456G2976G1204G185444The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."G2532G2348G1831G1210G5495G2532G4228G2750G2532G846G3799G4019G4676G2424G3004G846G3089G846G2532G863G521745Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, put their faith in him.G3767G4183G1537G2453G3588G2064G4314G3137G2532G2300G3739G2424G4160G4100G1519G84646But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.G1161G5100G1537G846G565G4314G5330G2532G2036G846G3739G2424G416047Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What are we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man performing many miraculous signs.G3767G4863G749G2532G5330G4892G2532G3004G5101G4160G3754G3778G444G4160G4183G459248If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."G1437G863G846G3779G863G3956G4100G1519G846G2532G4514G2064G2532G142G2532G2257G5117G2532G148449Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all!G1161G1520G5100G1537G846G2533G5607G749G1565G1763G2036G846G5210G1492G3756G376250You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish."G3761G1260G3754G4851G2254G2443G1520G444G599G5228G2992G2532G3650G1484G622G336151He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,G1161G5124G2036G3756G575G1438G235G5607G749G1565G1763G4395G3754G2424G3195G599G5228G148452and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.G2532G3756G5228G1484G3440G235G2443G2532G4863G1519G1520G5043G2316G128753So from that day on they plotted to take his life.G3767G575G1565G2250G4823G2443G615G846G61554Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the Jews. Instead he withdrew to a region near the desert, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.G2424G3767G4043G3765G3954G1722G2453G235G565G1564G1519G5561G1451G2048G1519G4172G3004G2187G2546G1304G3326G846G310155When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.G1161G2453G3957G2258G1451G2532G4183G305G1537G5561G1519G2414G4253G3957G2443G48G143856They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple area they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he coming to the Feast at all?"G3767G2212G2424G2532G3004G3326G240G2476G1722G2411G5101G1380G5213G3754G2064G3364G2064G1519G185957But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, he should report it so that they might arrest him.G1161G2532G749G2532G5330G1325G1785G2443G1437G5100G1097G4226G2076G3377G3704G4084G846
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